Valdis Dombrovskis
Valdis Dombrovskis | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Latvia | |
| Assumed office 12 March 2009 | |
| President | Valdis Zatlers |
| Preceded by | Ivars Godmanis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 August 1971 Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | New Era Party |
| Alma mater | University of Latvia Riga University of Technology |
Valdis Dombrovskis (born 5 August 1971 in Riga) is a Latvian politician, a Member of the European Parliament for the New Era Party, and the current Prime Minister of Latvia.[1]
Education and science career
Dombrovskis graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Latvia. He earned a Bachelor's degree in economics for engineers from Riga University of Technology in 1995 and a Master's degree in physics from the University of Latvia in 1996. He has worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Physics of Mainz University, Germany from 1995 to 1996, as an assistant at the Institute of Solid-State Physics of the University of Latvia in 1997, and as a research assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Maryland University, United States in 1998.
Political activity
Dombrovskis has been a Member of the Board of the New Era Party since 2002. He was Minister of Finance of Latvia from 2002 to 2004 and a Member of the Latvian Parliament during its 8th parliamentary term (2002–2004). Then he was Observer at the Council of the European Union (2003–2004).
As Member of the European Parliament, Dombrovskis is a member of three European Parliament Committees: Committee on Budgets, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a Subtitute at Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Committee on Budgetary Control and delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.
Dombrovskis was also one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.[2]
On February 26, 2009, following the resignation of Ivars Godmanis, President Valdis Zatlers nominated Dombrovskis for the new Prime Minister of Latvia.[1] His government will likely consist of three of the four previously governing parties (all but PM Ivars Godmanis' LPP/LC), his own New Era Party and a smaller right-wing party (the Civic Union), and was approved on 12 March 2009.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Dombrovskis chosen as Latvian PM". BBC News. February 26, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
- ^ "Arrivée à Lomé des députés européens", Republicoftogo.com, October 11, 2007 Template:Fr icon.
- ^ http://www.javno.com/en-world/latvia-government-named-differences-emerge_239733
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